Tuesday November 13, 2007, 1:10 pm
Nothing is more damaging to US interests
than the inability to have a proper debate
about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
Financial Times, Editorial, Saturday, April 01, 2006

Tuesday November 13, 2007, 1:10 pm
A provocative analysis of a serious problem that should be discussed and debated widely among the U.S. public, academics, and the policy establishment, this book succeeds in exposing in great detail the enormous power and influence of Israel and the Jewish Lobby in shaping U.S. policy toward the Middle East."
Berch Berberoglu, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Reno
Author of TURMOIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

“Once again James Petras takes us on a fearless truth trip—with lucid style, tough factual blows, commanding research, and compelling analysis. This is an eye-opening, must-read book for every advocate of democracy and every opponent of imperialism.”
—Michael Parenti,
author of The Culture Struggle and Superpatriotism

“An outstanding analysis of the political machinery responsible for so much suffering in the Middle East: the social science equivalent of John Adam´s opera “Klinghoffer”. Brilliant and substantive”.
John Saxe-Fernandez,
Professor and Senior Researcher, Faculty of Political Science National Autonomous
University of Mexico and leading world authority on US foreign policy and the oil industry

”Jim Petras has been one of the few courageous individuals, in or outside of academia, to take a critical view of the pro-Israel lobby and its influence over US Middle East policy and to challenge the “conventional wisdom” on the part of the Left that Israel acts as a “cop on the beat” and is simply serving America’s imperial interests.”
Jeff Blankfort,
A leading Jewish authority, writer and critic in the US on the pro-Israel Lobby

“Jim Petras is one of the best informed political scientists of his generation, not given to avoiding difficult issues. Here he addresses one such, which he tackles in a characteristically challenging way.”
Tom Brass, Editor
The Journal of Peasant Studies

“Always meticulously researched and full of insight, in the final analysis Petras’ opinions are almost always vindicated by events. I believe that this will be the case here.”
—Cy Gonick,
Canadian Dimension magazine

“Jim Petras, a man with vast expertise assembled in Latin America, takes the Leftist anti-imperialist discourse one step further, beyond safe condemnation of American imperialism.He begins where Chomsky and Zunes stop. In this book, Petras turns to the Middle East, where he discovers, through the haze of anti-Muslim polemics, assassinations and tortures, the identity of the decisive factor: that of “Jewish power shaping US policy in the Middle East against the interest of Big Oil”.

Petras’ critique of “soft Left” with its fear to alienate wealthy and influential Jewish supporters is a breath of fresh air; this critique has to be internalised if the Left wills to regain its place in society.”
Israel Shamir, Jaffa
Leading Russian-Israeli intellectual, writer, translator and journalist

Tuesday November 13, 2007, 1:11 pm
SUMMARY

This book is a chapter-by-chapter analysis and documentation of the power of Israel via the Israeli, Jewish or Pro-Zionist Lobby on US Middle East policy. It raises serious questions as to the primary beneficiary of US policy, and its destructive results for the United States. The extraordinary extent of US political, economic, military and diplomatic support for the state of Israel is explored, along with the means whereby such support is generated and consolidated. Contending that Zionist power in America ensured unconditional US backing for Israeli colonization of Palestine and its massive uprooting of Palestinians, it views the interests of Israel rather than those of Big Oil as the primary cause of the disastrous US wars against Iraq and threats of war against Iran and Syria. It demonstrates and condemns US imitation of Israeli practice as it relates to conduct of the war on terrorism and torture. It sheds light on the AIPAC spying scandal and other Israeli espionage against America; the fraudulent and complicit role of America’s academic “terrorist experts” in furthering criminal government policies, and the orchestration of the Danish cartoons to foment antipathy between Muslims and the West. It questions the inability in America to sustain or even formulate a discourse related to the subject of Israeli influence on the United States. It calls for a review of American Mid East policy with a view to reclaiming US independence of action based upon enlightened self-interest and progressive principles.

Tuesday November 13, 2007, 8:55 pm
Thanks Sunshine! I will read the book you bet... "We, the Jews control America, and the Americans know it."
Ariel Sharon. Ex Zionist Israel PM

The question is why... Blackmail??? Commun interest in global domination?... And these pretend-Jews are in fact from Khazaria, therefore they are Khazars, Ashkenazi Jews. Funny that they are the ones using the label of anti-semite for anyone who opposes the Zionist regime.... Khazars are CAUCASIANS. They have no connection to the real Jews, the Shephardic Jews... oh boy!!! When will eeryone see them for what they are: a satanic cult of impostors? Thanks for posting this important article!

Tuesday November 13, 2007, 11:22 pm
I hope Chapter 13 sheds some light on Noam Chomsky. Thanks, Sunshine.

Wednesday November 14, 2007, 4:40 am
here is a link to Noam Chomsky's site, he works alot with Howard Zinn and several others, I posted quite a few of his and others articles re open discussion on Zionism (one to write a letter as a university is book banning another author), as well as several working for peace in Palistein and Israel. I also posted a Jewish writer who is anti-zionist and is having a hard time, posted these all yesterday under USA or WORLD, Please take a look and read and Note if you wish thanks..

Nur for anyone you want some history on, just go to www.google.com and put their name in, with "wiki" beside it and it will come up, also their sites and any other sites they are mentioned on. for starters, "wiki" is a good place to go most of the time

http://www.chomsky.info/

Wednesday November 14, 2007, 5:09 am
here is a link to the 14 dubious theses (as Petras calls them) by Chomsky that Petras is discussing, not up to submitting right now so leaving a link


http://www.antiimperialista.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4326&Itemid=150

Wednesday November 14, 2007, 2:10 pm
Second (first, really), following Edward Said, critics of Israel are accustomed to think of the Zionist project as a colonization of Palestinian society and territory. As Petras has it, the Zionists didn’t stop there, but subsequently, successfully colonized U.S. government and society, too. For its part, America pays Israel an annual “tribute” of billions of dollars per year, while looking the other way with respect to its shocking human-rights butcher’s bill, habitual violations of international law, etc.

Thursday November 15, 2007, 5:43 am
Marie, I've done a very quick research on Khazars, Ashkenazi Jews, most of what you have been introduced to most has been disproven, and some not true at all. Here are links for you and anyone else:

The Thirteenth Tribe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Tribe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi